I began posting The Glittering Eye on March 15, 2004. That means that as of yesterday this blog is 22 years old.
Nearly 22,000 posts later I plan to keep posting here as long as I live which I hope will be a few more years. Given family history I doubt the blog will be around long enough to celebrate a 30th birthday but who knows?
An enormous amount has changed over 22 years and yet nothing has changed. There was once a flourishing blogosphere of thousands of individual voices arguing, speculating, linking, and responding to one another in realtime. Much of that world has since been absorbed into legacy media or platforms like Substack in attempts to monetize blogging. Monetization has never been a goal of mine and I have never seriously pursued it.
Partisans still reflexively bicker back and forth. We are at war in the Middle East. China remains our primary global competitor.
The technology changes. The arguments mostly don’t.
I keep posting.
Thank you for hosting the Blog. I enjoy the discussion and hearing different points of view,. I also like that it tends to be civil discussion. I hope you make it to 30!